Fly fishing well especially on slightly cloudy days. Rainbow trout are going for bright colours and varied patterns. Buzzers and bloodworms are also catching well with the average fish coming in at 5lb. Top Catches Geoffrey Fox from Crewe 5lb 3oz on black tadpole Mr Hignett from Warrington 5lb 12oz on tadpole Trevor Gleave from [...]

Fishing well with the average fish between 3-6lb and up to 7lb catching on buzzers and dry flies

Plenty of rainbow trout are being caught. Although fly hatches are sporadic , flies catching are dry sedge, black buzzers, diawl back, cats whiskers and orange lures. Rainbow trout being caught are on average 2 – 5lb and there has been plenty caught

Been a lot better this week. The NW Fly fishers competition took place with John Hood winning best fish 8lb 2oz rainbow trout and the overall competition with a total bag of 14lb 4oz’s . Second place was John Jannion with a 6lb rainbow trout. Flies catching are Bloodworm, Damsel Nymphs, zonkers and minky’s. This [...]

Catches have been slightly slow with trout at 2 ½ lb the average, using cats whiskers, diawl backs, bloodworm.

Steve Humphreys from the Wirral caught a 5 ½ lb rainbow trout on cats whiskers John Atkin from Chester caught a 7 9oz rainbow trout on a goldhead

Last restock last Thursday with mostly bigger trout of 4-9lb. A Cats whisker landed a 8 1/2lb rainbow trout for Harry Simpson from Southport . Average 3-4lb rainbows being caught on cats whisker, bloodworm ,egg flies and Montana’s, buzzers orange fritz.

Most of last week there was one lake frozen over, this week has been busy catching on black tinhead, black buzzer and black fritz also bloodworm. Big lake 6 fish – one 5lb 4oz and others of around 2lb all on mayfly! Mr. Jefferson 5lb 12oz on fritz and Mr Wrather 5lb 2oz black and [...]

Fairly busy week when not frozen. Adrian Stanton from great Sutton caught a 4 1/2 lb rainboe trout on a bloodworm pattern. When its been mild catching on buzzers/diawl back and pheasant tails. When cold catching on white/orange fritz and lures

Trout averaging 2-3lb on diawl back, bloodworm, black/red buzzers, cats whiskers, orange fritz. Due to the weather the fish are down deep so you will need to use either sinking lines or long leaders on a floater.